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Provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks: "students began taunting her about her weight".
Reproach (someone) with something in a contemptuous way: "she had taunted him with going to another man".

I only played one Zelda game when I was 5 I think. Haven't' played any since. But if using video games for example, I can imagine it being used on Sqauresoft's Chocobo's dungeon where you ran out of a shop not paying for the items when you know the Doom/ Shopkeeper will chase after you. Right?

Actually, I do understand it. I was addressing his need to come here and 'share'. It wreaked of that usual cry-for-attention-I'm-not wanting-to-be -on-this-site -anymore-someone-tell-me-why-I-should-stay-passive-aggressive attitude that we've all seen many times from several members before him. Tomba had expressed the same sentiments in a roundabout way before. I just told him how I felt, and the comments he made before leaving didn't change that. I love him to death, and he's definitely great to have on this site...but I'm not rolling along with that.

When I get tired of JUB...you all will know. One day someone will think: hmmm...haven't seen Huntneo is ages! I don't feel the need to broadcast it.

In one of those rare moments where I'm being blunt and actually confessing something that may damage my reputation, I agree with you. I have said it before, probably too far back when I was a noob and most people didn't really interact with me, that I never understood the theatrics that accompany leaving JUB. I've been a member of many forum communities. When people are tired of them, they peter off without a word usually. Their accounts are still there, but you see they haven't logged in since x. This whole culture we have here of people coming to the foreground and talking about how the drama of JUB or whatever else is getting to them and they're thinking of self deleting, to me, always seemed melodramatic, like the digital version of a crying for help threat to commit suicide vicariously through avatar or something. If someone's unhappy here for whatever reason I totally understand them wanting to leave. I just never understood the whole publicity stunt of proclamations of thoughts of self-deletion leading up to doing or not-doing-it. When or if I get tired of JUB I'll likely just stop logging into it, or do it less and less over time and eventually disappear. Like 99% of people do at 99% of forums.

There's bleakness anywhere if you're looking for it. Is there a lot of crap that goes on? Sure...but there are a lot of interesting people and subjects that are chattered about and a sense of community still even after all these years. I don't have to agree with or love everyone here to appreciate there still is a lot more worth coming back for than not.

this is one of the few sites that i've been to that offers members the option to self delete. that is a privilege. that is unheard of for a site to give members the option to self delete. it's funny to see how much criticisms folks can come up about this site and this site is nowhere near as bad as folks are making it out to be. it's ridiculous. they should take the self delete option away because i think it's bullshit. this site is totally kick ass and all but this site is NOT that serious where that option needs to be around. if someone is tired of posting, all they simply have to do is not post, log off or to turn off the computer. it's NOT hard.

you know, sometimes, i think folks really don't need to self delete. this site is REALLY not that serious or for that matter, requires such an option to begin with. i think some of the members in here need to get a grip, get some discipline going on where they're like "i want to quit jub" as if it's a fucking part time job or something, come back down to earth and enjoy the place that jub is.

man, i don't care how annoyed, angry, upset and etc you get with this site. it says a whole lot if someone has to self delete. look @ jayden and jaysun. they didn't self delete. they just stopped coming. i give them props for doing that. you damn sure don't need to delete your screenname in order to stop coming. i refuse to believe that someone is that weak where they need to self delete because they let a message board really get to them like that. i would rather see someone have a meltdown like wanker, enchanted and just get banned instead. no offense to all you folks that self deleted but self deleting is some coward shit. it really is.

one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry

It's actually really common on Facebook. There, you're less likely to see " think I'm going to delete my account" (although you do see it from time to time) than you are to see "I have too many friends - I'm going to be whittling my friend list down in the next day or two."

Dear GOD, do I hate that.

First off, was there ever a more "first world problem" than "I have too many friends on Facebook"? And even if this were really some sort of issue, how hard is it to tick off some boxes to either hide posts in your feed, or just remove some friends? But no - it always turns into some sort of bad reality show. As if to say "I'm going to be shortening my friend list. Will you make the cut? Are you a good enough friend to me to remain on my list of friends?" And the kicker is - some people fall for this. After the axe falls, they say "Whew - I made it!" or "I'm glad we're still friends."

I always figure this is a person I don't want to be friends with in any event. So whenever somebody on Facebook says something along these lines, I post "Let me give you a head start" and defriend them. And here's the thing - they invariably send me a friend request within the next 24 hours, with a note saying "No, silly, not YOU!"

Oh man Lex, you should have been in my network during the last election. All anyone was talking about was their culling process. And not just me or people who are ordinarily super-political, but a lot of normal people who started updates with "I ordinarily never get into political stuff but.."

It's actually really common on Facebook. There, you're less likely to see " think I'm going to delete my account" (although you do see it from time to time) than you are to see "I have too many friends - I'm going to be whittling my friend list down in the next day or two."

Dear GOD, do I hate that.

First off, was there ever a more "first world problem" than "I have too many friends on Facebook"? And even if this were really some sort of issue, how hard is it to tick off some boxes to either hide posts in your feed, or just remove some friends? But no - it always turns into some sort of bad reality show. As if to say "I'm going to be shortening my friend list. Will you make the cut? Are you a good enough friend to me to remain on my list of friends?" And the kicker is - some people fall for this. After the axe falls, they say "Whew - I made it!" or "I'm glad we're still friends."

I always figure this is a person I don't want to be friends with in any event. So whenever somebody on Facebook says something along these lines, I post "Let me give you a head start" and defriend them. And here's the thing - they invariably send me a friend request within the next 24 hours, with a note saying "No, silly, not YOU!"

Lex

they even do it on facebook too? facebook is evil. myspace too. all these social networks are fucking evil. smart phones are evil too. technology is fucking evil.

i'm not saying this to be funny or be silly BUT i swear technology is worse than money. it really brings out the worst in people.

one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry

Facebook isn't evil. It's a tool. Like a hammer or screwdriver. You can use a hammer to bash someone's skull in, or a screwdriver to stab someone in the eye. That just means you're not using the tool correctly.

Oddly, I didn't see much political bullshit during the election - it seems most of my conservative friends didn't think much of Romney. But now it's not truly a day unless I get at least three anti-gun-control posts, photos and memes.

they even do it on facebook too? facebook is evil. myspace too. all these social networks are fucking evil. smart phones are evil too. technology is fucking evil.

i'm not saying this to be funny or be silly BUT i swear technology is worse than money. it really brings out the worst in people.

Facebook is like Apple fanatics in reverse. All you ever hear from are the people who haaaaattteee it. Like you can never get mac people to stop talking about how wonderful Apple products are. It's not really that bad. I've said it before in some rant somewhere... but Facebook gives you SO MUCH control over who adds you, who sees you, who even KNOWS you're on facebook at all, who can read anything you post, etc., that when people say things like "omg I hate facebook it's so invasive", they are using it wrong, or lazily. You can even set it so that some friends or family can't see anything your other friends or family post or say on your facebook, ever.

To me it's a great way to keep tabs on people as they move around, change phone numbers or e-mail addresses and yet still be able to contact them without doing the old fashioned thing of having to try to call their mom or whatever and get their c urrent number. And a way to instantly send a message to one person or a lot of friends without having to dig through e-mail address books and hope they're all current.

There are people who get too invested with it or get into too much drama on it but that's 100% controllable and self-created.

A person with a good memory can remember names of one's friends, so if that person should ever turn on you, he could find your friends and do a lot of damage, even if you yourself have unfriended and blocked him.

I deleted my Facebook profile for this reason.

Apropos the Mac fans--I guess I could call myself atypical in that fashion. I loved the Mac products circa 2003, but I have developed a certain level of disillusionment with them.

I still think Macs provide the most integrated platform by far, but it no longer has complete immunity to virus-protection as it did. (MacDefender, etc.) Besides, I see it as becoming the same kind of behemoth that Windows was in the 1990s.

I use Linux nowadays for most of my computing.

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Confession: I believe I have found the perfect fried-chicken recipe.

It took years of experimenting.

But since you have complete control over who you add, the decision to add people you don't trust or don't know in real life and let them mingle with people you do is entirely up to you.

98% of everyone on my facebook are people I went to school with, worked with, or are related to. I don't know what kind of trouble any of them would start by trying to go behind my back and talk to my other friends, I don't add people like that.

I'm sorry Johann but I find that viewpoint a little paranoid. By the same logic we could say any of your real life friends, knowing who else you associate with, could backstab you.

I could abuse Facebook myself. I had a man at work who made fun of me to my face, you know--the wrist-flipping, etc. Let's call him Richard Roe.

Later on, I befriended an openly gay man. Let's call him James Doe.

James Doe confided in me that he and Richard Roe had had an affair. So our Richard Roe, who'd given me such a hard time about my own sexuality, was swallowing sperm at the local bathhouse. Hah!

I found Richard Roe's profile on Facebook--through James Doe's profile. Richard Roe's profile says that he's straight, Christian, and involved with a woman.

Do you have any idea how vicious I could have become? I could have dropped a nasty little note to his girlfriend,"Do you realize that your boyfriend's bisexual, and swallows cum at the local gay bathhouse?"

I could have done significant damage to his life.

At the end, however, I chose the high road, and have kept my mouth shut.But I could have destroyed him.

True story.

That entire risk is the result of living a huge lie, Johann. Not a risk inherent to Facebook. You could destroy that individual without facebook if you so chose.

I actually HAVE had somebody do this. They hit up my friends on Facebook (and back in the day, Myspace) and told them that I was bad news. That the only people who get anywhere professionally have to take a tumble on my "casting couch", if you will. (The story changes between "You have to suck Lex's cock to get anywhere with him" and "You have to let Lex suck your cock to get anywhere with him.") And that I've threatened to personally destroy anybody who not just tries to work against that, but who goes to anybody else for help.

My stock response was "I really wish the first part was true, because then roughly 300 people would owe me blowjobs. And I'm unclear how I'd be able to 'destroy' anybody, although you might find that me withholding said blowjobs would be pretty devastating." Everybody laughed, nobody took those comments seriously, and life went on.

I actually HAVE had somebody do this. They hit up my friends on Facebook (and back in the day, Myspace) and told them that I was bad news. That the only people who get anywhere professionally have to take a tumble on my "casting couch", if you will. (The story changes between "You have to suck Lex's cock to get anywhere with him" and "You have to let Lex suck your cock to get anywhere with him.") And that I've threatened to personally destroy anybody who not just tries to work against that, but who goes to anybody else for help.

My stock response was "I really wish the first part was true, because then roughly 300 people would owe me blowjobs. And I'm unclear how I'd be able to 'destroy' anybody, although you might find that me withholding said blowjobs would be pretty devastating." Everybody laughed, nobody took those comments seriously, and life went on.

Lex

I get that these things do happen, but in short my thoughts are:

a) You don't have to let anyone on Facebook mingle with anyone else you know on facebook. You can put friends in different categories so they don't even see each other's existence or posts on your profile.

b) This could just as easily happen in real life with anyone you know who knows other people you work with/interact with.

I guess what I'm saying is... facebook for most people is a collection of people they do know in real life. In fact for many users that's all they have on their facebook, and even then a whole lot of people won't add just anyone. You can set your entire friends list to be invisible. You can set your entire existence on facebook to be invisible and require a link from the owner to even find it.

Of course there's risk but there is, imho, no risk on there you're not aware of at the time you decide to add someone, and plenty of security options to limit the damage anyone you don't know or trust very well can do.

No, that's just it. I'm aware that it happens - as I said, it DID happen to me. But it could've happened just as easy in real life - Facebook just made it easier for them to find all sorts of people I interact with. But I don't think that's much of a reason not to use it. I handled this horrible issue with a two sentence paragraph, which took me about 60 seconds to draft and type. No big deal.

That entire risk is the result of living a huge lie, Johann. Not a risk inherent to Facebook. You could destroy that individual without facebook if you so chose.

I've only done something to that extent once. This woman in a college study session was making fun of me for being gay and fucking one of her friends. I said right back in her face in front of the class: "how's the genital herpes X gave you?" She stormed out crying.

Some people just need to be knocked down a few pegs [or the entire ladder] to realize that they are not better than everyone else.

No, that's just it. I'm aware that it happens - as I said, it DID happen to me. But it could've happened just as easy in real life - Facebook just made it easier for them to find all sorts of people I interact with. But I don't think that's much of a reason not to use it. I handled this horrible issue with a two sentence paragraph, which took me about 60 seconds to draft and type. No big deal.

Lex

Yup. Really the way I feel about it is-- you can use it any way you want. I don't know why people feel like you "have to" let all sorts of people from every avenue of your life interact, or even let them all see your friends list. You don't. A lot of people don't add coworkers-- or don't add old school friends, or don't add family members, depending on how they use facebook and how they feel about privacy. And even if you add all three you can put them in separate categories so that none of them can interact or see each other.

I didn't mean to rant at such length about it, except that I think the paranoia about what it can be used for is predicated mostly on not fully understanding all the options that exist to be very very private-- to ridiculous degrees, if one wishes. But ultimately you can "not add" anyone you don't want to, and that alone should solve 90% of it.

That's the pepperoni I added onto it. I take a cheese Digorno and add basil, garlic powder, red pepper flakes. Then I pour on the Sriracha, cover with pepperoni and then grate some Parmesan cheese on top.

Since we're doing confessions again, here's a real one. When I was 14 (and he was 16), my brother asked me to do something sexual with him. It was no big deal, really - mutual masturbation. And I recall him saying more than once that it "didn't mean anything" and/or it "didn't make me/him gay". I turned him down. And I can't say as I regret doing so.

It's not something that was ever brought up again. I wonder if he ever flashes back on it. And if he thinks "He's GAY and he STILL turned me down".

Since we're doing confessions again, here's a real one. When I was 14 (and he was 16), my brother asked me to do something sexual with him. It was no big deal, really - mutual masturbation. And I recall him saying more than once that it "didn't mean anything" and/or it "didn't make me/him gay". I turned him down. And I can't say as I regret doing so.

It's not something that was ever brought up again. I wonder if he ever flashes back on it. And if he thinks "He's GAY and he STILL turned me down".

Lex

Cookies? Those are in the fridge which I stole from work! That's hummus in the container. Your deduction skills are quite poor g-lex.

My brother has used me before as an attempt to out one of his friends before because he was such a closet case. He is a family friend too and he [the closet case] will avoid at all costs interacting with my brother and me together. During Christmas, that situation occurred and he kept playing footsy with me under the table. Of course, this closet case has had a crush on my brother since they were both in high school but he is now married. I want to feel bad for him but alas I could not deal with such insecurity.

PS: I hate when people try to "remix" songs to a different beat and it does not go well at all. For example: The Mission Impossible theme is in 5/4 time and The Wind Waker theme is in 9/8 time. Don't fucking try to convert the song to common time.

PPS: I will attempt understand the "asians" obsession with the pentatonic scale.

I liked the Green Day/Oasis one, although that simply pointed out that the songs were nearly identical. But yes, Mission Impossible is in 5/4. Thanks for "fixing that annoying part", oh lesser half of U2.

I have to admit, I've enjoyed some of DJ Earworm's pop mashups. I actually had his 2012 'Shine Brighter' mashup on repeat for a day or two. I still really enjoy it to be honest, from 2:40 onwards especially.

I have been turned off from watermelon ever since a prank while I was a camp counselor. They put a crap ton of salt on a slice of watermelon for desert and gave it to me and I pretty much gagged on it.

FWIW, Tombastep, I didn't see what you wrote as attention-seeking because you've always come across to me as a very reserved person. Sometimes, people just need to say what's on their mind. I get it. Anyway, take care for now. Although I do hope you come back at some point. I always enjoy reading your take on things.

Anyway, on a related note: Hot Topics has been so slow and boring, lately. Not sure if it's because most of the regulars just don't have much to discuss or if many of them are gradually losing interest and leaving. Oh well.

I think it's the fact that there isn't drama at the moment, or, at the very least, that people are pointedly sidestepping the most recent drama. Palbert more or less made a comment that was eerily accurate in another thread... that at least things "kick" when an Enchanted or a Wanker is around. It is true that things slow down when there isn't a crisis going on.

I think it's the fact that there isn't drama at the moment, or, at the very least, that people are pointedly sidestepping the most recent drama. Palbert more or less made a comment that was eerily accurate in another thread... that at least things "kick" when an Enchanted or a Wanker is around. It is true that things slow down when there isn't a crisis going on.

I think we've rehashed the BenderBoy saga enough times. But just in case you all think we're ignoring it...